Meteor Showers, Eclipses, and More Are on the August 2026 Astronomical Calendar
Here’s when some of this year’s most anticipated astronomical events will happen and the best way to observe them.
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Robot Sourcing Index (Page 33)
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5 Best AI Notetakers (2026), Tested and Reviewed
A growing collection of pocket-size gadgets lets you easily make recordings and extract info from them. Here are our…
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Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
Article URL: https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187061…
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Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2 Comments URL:…
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The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL:…
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12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2026), Tested by Caffeine Hounds
These services deliver freshly roasted, delicious coffee picks right to your door—each with its own twist.
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Best Handheld Fans for a Breeze on Demand (2026)
I put handheld, wearable, and misting fans through a sweltering summer to see which ones kept me coolest.
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Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Article URL: https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt Comments URL:…
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Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency Comments URL:…
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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Article URL: https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188022 Points:…
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Zed DeltaDB
Article URL: https://zed.dev/deltadb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256 Points: 255 #…
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X product chief Nikita Bier is leaving after one year
X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that "it's time…
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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
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Welp, Nobody Saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Crash Into the Moon
Although no one captured a direct image of the impact, scientists have detected signals confirming the rocket hit the…
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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to…
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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows…
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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several…
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Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."
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Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
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Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing
Schwartz is well-qualified for the role, but crashed and burned in Senate hearing.
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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex…
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa...https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-lead…
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DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats
A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to…
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The National Design Studio Became a DOGE Landing Pad. Now ‘Big Balls’ Is Recruiting
WIRED spoke with an engineer who was interviewed by Edward “Big Balls” Coristine for a government engineering role at…